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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

STATE SENATOR RAINES, of New York
proposes novel method of dsposng of the
treasury surplus. 1t is to cash the adjusted
claims OF all pensioners at their present value,
thus discharging in one payment the govern
ments entire obligation. The term present
value" is used in the sense established bv
insurance companies. The annual value OF
pensions shown by the roll of June 80,
1887, was in round numbers 500. OOO OOO
This represents an annual interest charge at
per cent. on more than ST. 800, Geo. 000
which, in some respects, is as much part Of
the national debt as are the outstanding
bonds of the government. The policy has
been adopted of purchasing bonds before their
maturity, and of paying a premium for the
same, and MIR. Raines suggests that the pen
sions be treated in the same way. "In vast
number of cases." he says ..the quarterly
pension payment is in the nature of an an
nuity for life. The amount which will pro-
duce the annuity is easily calculated by
established rules. l advance the suggestion
that Congress shall enact such legislation as
will enable all pensioners who desire to do so
to receive the present worth of their annu-
tiles or pensions. Such provision would,
for some years to come, eliminate the surplus
political question, would obviate the
necessity of tinkering with the tariff, or
abolishing the tax on liquor and tobacco"
OF course the proposition involves practical
difficu tiles which probably insuperable,
but it has the merit of novelty and is quite
as feasible as some of the other schemes for
disposing of the surplus.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
AT last we have the whole truth about the

AT last we have the whole truth about the
ate election in Virginia. 1t is now known
that the Republicans carried the State by
decided majority on the aggregate vote.
Owing to the peculiar districting of the State
and to their control of the election machinery
the Democrats were able to secure a majority
of the Legislature, but the Republicans had a
majority on the popular vote. It has been
like pulling teeth to get at the facts, but the
truth is out at last. In order to conceal it
majority the leaders and managers resorted to
all sorts of tricks, doctoring and changing
returns, making false reports. etc. Among
other things, they counted all scattering votes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

ton, as elucdated by Eastern and Western
dealers, leads to the conclusion that the
scarcity in tie Eastern cities is due to the fact
all the ears owned by the railroad companies
are engaged in carrying coal to the West,
while tie short supply and high prices in the
West are caused by the fact that the cars are
all in the East. In the meantime you 'pays
your money" and lot of it, and the dealers
reap the profit and wax wealthy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

A PITTsBURG paper says coal men there
have about given up hope of a rise in the riv-
er until after heavy snow fall. The rivers
have begun to drop, and it will be impossible
estimated that there are now fully 10000
bushels of coal lying along the upper Ohio
and its tributaries. The situation in all
Western cities is about the same-general dis
satisfaction and complaint among consumers
and serene complacency among dealers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
The Duty of Republicans.


The Republicans in the House are likely to
have great responsibility put upon them 1t
is to show that while unrelen tingly opposed to
the free-trade schemes of the Democratic caucus.
they are anxious to effect satisfactory Settle
ment of the surplus problem From the very
opening of the session they should appeal, not to
Carlisle but to the country. They should de-
mand their right to have important public meas
ures voted upon, and if refused place Alright the
bility for that refusal before the people.
They should formulate a simple proposition,
having for its purpose the plain idea of striking
500. 600, 900 from the revenues. and then make
it clear by constant effort to secure its consider
alton that not they, but the free traders. killed
it. The party that goes before the people next
year with an honest determination to wipe out
the surplus will win, and the Democrats hope to
put the Republicans in the position of defeating
their bills without offering anything definite in
stead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
working.

THE Journal is free to acknowledge that
Indianapolis does not at present possess ball
or hotel room sufficient for the accommoda-
ton of so large an assemblage as either the
Republican or Democratic conventions, but is
ample room here for the political Prohibi-
tionists, and their cousins, and their sisters,
and their aunts. The COMMITTEES is to be con-
graduated on it's good sense in making choice
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

The Prohibitionists who wanted to make
Mrs. Lord of Chicago, legal delegate from
Georgia, on the ground that she a woman
and took a deep interest in the work. take the
palm for gallantry, anyway. No woman
would stand the ghost of a chance of getting
into convention of the other political
partieg on that plea
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

IT is reasonable to suppose that 1ndianap-
oils was chosen as the place of meeting for
the national Prohibition convention because
of the fact that the city is under Republican
control. and the II o'clock and Sunday CLOSING
rules will be sharply enforced.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
Pity for Turpie.
Chicago Mail.

Judge Turpie, the Senator elect from Indiana,
does not expect to take his seat without con-
test, although Gen. Harrison has several oc-
casions stated emphatically that he would not
make fight 1t would be too bad to rattle the
bones of this poor old backnumber cadavar,
that was resurrected from the political cemetery
by the Hoosier Bourbons last winter, by expos
ing it to the dangers of a contest. Common hui
test, if any such intention Is really narbored
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
Wisconsin Senators.

New York CommeIc ial Advertiser
Senator Sawyer is shaped like a barrel and
owns a barrel containing about $40, 600, 00o Mr.
Spooner. though not yet forty FIVE. has earned a
half million dollars as a railroad lawyer He
is small red-haired and has an ugly face.
THE Republicans will elect the next Presi-
dent" he said to-day. 1T is too early to talk
of candidates ANY good Republican can be
eIected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

THE Congress which meets next Monday
will be the fftieth in our history. Had we
better have a semi-centennial celebration
when the Congress meets or when it adjournsf
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

Two predictions always be confidently
counted on from Washington about this sea-
son of the year One that the next session of
Congress twill be the most important session
for many years." and the other that Wash
ington will be unusually gay this winter"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

published by Jansen, McClure Co, was
far superior to the previous work Of Miss
Brown.
Miss Brown is now so reduced in eircunn-
stances, as che claims by the opposition that her
case has become desperate. Hence her decision
to go to law She holds that the American con-
sui at Copenhagen is responsible for the rreiu-
dice that has been excited against her, and to
him she will look for redress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

MAJOR POND feels hurt at the course pur-
sued by some of the Plymouth Church people
in the DR.. Parker business. He says that the
extraordinary love for Mr. Beecher which
cash, and is mostly cheap talk. There is prob
ably some truth in that. The world is full of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
The Way Anarchists Are Made.

The new trial granted to Jacob Sharp is sim
ply decision by the highest court of New York
that Jaehne, McQuaid and the rest of the alder
men bribed by Sharp were sentenced unjustly,
and are now detained in Sing Sing unlawfully.
The decision is susceptible of no other inter
probation. If Sharp escapes, the rest of the
boodlers can come back from Canada and dis
play their swag at home in peace. Such spec
tacle will make more Anarchists in one year
than the violent TRADES of Johann Most could
make in twenty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
A Dead Mans Heirs.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

1t takes. death to find heirs for rich man.
The late ex-Vice president Wheeler died wifeless
and childleSs and it a constant complaint of
his that he was friendess and forlorn in the
world. But now that he is dea and fortune
of SO. 900 or so is lying around loose heirs by
the score are sprngng up in every direction
Were Mr. Wheeler alive again he could now not
mas Ward said of Brigham Young, if he desired
to die in the bosom of his family he would have
to go out doors to die
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

THE County Commissioners could make no
mistake by changing the present county
attorney. Amy change would be for the better;
but if man like ex-Judge Norton or Mr..
John R. Wilson be selected, as is now talked
of, there would be some prospect Of the office
being filed by gentleman and lawyer who
would command respect
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

CAREFUL reading of the testimony in the
Fidelity Bank trial, at Cincinnati, gives rise
to the belief that friendly relations between
broker Wiltshire and fnancier Harper will not
be resumed when the latter gentleman gets
out of iail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

GEN. WILLIAM MALONE has demonstrated
his leadership in three campaigns in Virginia.
and never better than in the last. The pop
ular vote shows Republican majority of
nearly 5000. Malone is very lively dead
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

Mr.. WILTSHIRE proved to be telling wit
ness in the Fidelity Bank case. He told
more facts than his former friend, Mr.. Har
per was expecting to hear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

The doctors say the Indianapolis water is
not very good, but perhaps it will improve in
quality before next June. If not, it will be
boiled for the national Prohibitionists in con-
wention assembled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

Mr.. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, the poet,
will attain his eightieth birthday Dec. II,
and the Essex Club of Boston propose to pre-
sent him that day with memorial in the
shape of a letter. expressing the high esteem in
III which he is held and speaking of his service
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
A Suspicious Public.
Philadelphia Press.

Two to one that the man who announced that
Gladstone would visit America next spring is
advertising agent for something other An
expectant public anxiously waits to whether
it is a new tooth powder or original kidney
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
Our "Great Newspapers"
Milwaukee Sentinel.

Metropolitan journalism is certainly advanc-
ing. In great black letters The World adver
tises: See The Sunday World. 1t will contain
Mrs. Cleveland's Favorite Recipe for max
ing brown bread"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

THE frequently-recorded downfall of promi-
nent persons through the uss of cocaine should
lead social reformers to organize political
party for the prohibition of the drug.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
Mr.. Riley at the authors, Convention.

90 the Amusement fund Mr. James
was concerned he made the hit OF
the afternoon. He gave character rrcitations.
and the hilarity occasioned by his when the
il seemed though his SECOND selection, THE
Educator" must be duller by contrast Such
was not the case, however. for, while tae frat
made the audience shake with mirth, the second
made them scream.
New York World: Mr.. George W. Cable in
his iDimitable and peculiarly dramatic STYLE
cited portion of his story of ''Grande Ponte,"
and then the stranger and the success of the &C.
casion introduced. This James Whit
comb Riley. He bears intimate relationship
in personal appearance to William Nye. His
face is as clean shaven that of a Roman priest
and there isn't much hair the top of his head.
Moreover. Mr. Riley wasn't more than tolerably
Well known 10 the fashionable audience. he Is
better known them to-day than he yes
terday. He read poem" and delivered a char
sketch. He sunk the author in the actor
The fun of Mark Twain shriveled up into a bit
ter patch of melancholy in tho fierce light of Mr..
Riley's humor DIR. Howard Crosby. who occu-
pied conspicuous seat on the stage laughed
until he looked though he would faint, and
finally in sheer non-sectarian uproariousness
poked Bishop Potter in the ribs and subsidized.
to the entertainment James Whitcomb
Riley, the Indiana poet, whose homely songs of
Western rural life, and rhymes about the birds
and bees, have won listeners by their genuine
music Mr. Riley is young man whose hair is
thin and SO light TO give him the appear
almost of perfect badness. His face Is
full of expression, quite suited to the genial
timents of his verses. and he speaks the Hooser
dialect, in which he has written, If II were his
mother tongue. His recital of ''When the frost
is on the punkin" the most taking thing of
the afternoon, and his character sketch. Tho
Educator" being address to the children OF a
country school, comedy of a very merry
sort.
The New York Star says of the second days
proceedings of the authors convention:
1.-THE printed programme had by this time
been finished, and the audience rising to
depart when Mr.. Lowell announced that James
Whtcomb Riley had consented to give another
recitation after the style of that which he had
given yesterday.
sit was one of his own characteristic little
Western dialect poems that he recited. the words
of old father to his motnerless daughter
when she comes tell him she is engaged. Il
was not much. perhaps, and every verse con-
Guided with. Well amt got nothin' to say
bnt it went way down into the hearts of his
listeners Ladies took out their handkerchiefs
and bowed their heads, and even their escorts in
many cases had to show their emotion"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
The Other Fellow Was Crazy.

PIttsburc chronicle
Elk Senator Jones cannot be so very crazy.
He has succeeded in borrowing some money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
Nice Man to Go ON the supreme Bench.

MiIwaukee
Just before leaving the Senate in 1885 to take
a place in Mr.. Cleveland'S Cabinet Mr.. Lamar,
replying to a Senator who had made remark
about Jeff Davis. said: '.No shall rise in
my presence and call jefferson Davis traitor
without meeting stern and emphatic denialn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

to the State and Nation. Among others who
are to sign the letter are the Governor of Massa-
chusetts and the members of the national Sem
ate and House of Representatives
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

THIS is the last winter of our discomfort on
account of coal. Next season will be made
glorious summer by natural gas.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

SECRETARY CozzENs, of the Newark Y. NJ. G.
A, has prepared paper on How to Get Young
Men to Work" Probably his idea is that they
can be coZened into it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

VoLAPUK, the new language intended for uni
versal use, has but swear word. That set
ties it. Street-car drivers and draymen are not
the only men who will never learn Volapuk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
Hunsing the Proper Temperature.

Hunsfng the Proper TeHpefatuf6
New York sisiI and Express.
Mr.. Howells has gone to Buffalo to write his
new novel; He probably wants to get his ideas
frozen down to an ideal temperature The east
winds of Boston are to warm for him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

MINISTER PHELPS made good speech at the
iftieth anniversary of the Nottingham Mercan-
tile Association recently, the concluding para
graph of which is particularly happy. He said:
Il for should be glad to a professor
ship endowed in all institutions of education
which, in the good time coming. will make its
appearance-a professorship of silence. Not to
teach men to talk, but to teach them to hold
their tongue. to teach them to display those
brilliant flashes of silence which Sydney Smith
found attractive in good a talker as Macaulay;
to teach men to think before they speak instead
of speaking before they think. If were frank
enough to say just what Iithink, it would be that
you have great deal too much talk in this coun-
try. You seem in danger of being carried away
by a sort of Noah's deluge of talk. Very good
talk some of it is, but when the same ideas have
been filtered along from the first expression
through the minds of a great many lesser
lights. it does not always seem to me when I
read them in the newspapers that the world is
great deal better for the repetition. I do not
believe that you are ever going to establish a
government by oratory, but perhaps you are in
some danger of it unless public sentiment takes
different turn. There seems to be a kind of
morbid craving for speeches. which, like the
craving for other stmulants is not wholesome.
L am sure the American minister has to make
more speeches in four years in this country than
he would be allowed to make in his own in all the
rest of his life. You may think that this criti-
clsm does not come with a good grace from me.
am often kindly complimented upon the force
and ability of some of my countrymen in theart
of public speaking. but you must remember that
the reason OF that is because they are not
allowed to talk all the time. There are
intervals for reflection. Our orators
are turned loose upon the COM
munity-only once in four years; and
the principal result of their efforts then is to
make people thank God that it does not come
any oftener The Tower of Babel might have
been built if the builders could have held their
tongues 1t was confusion of tongues that put
an end to that enterprise, and it is not at all
impossible that the whole story of the Tower of
Babel is one of those lessons found in Oriental
mankind by the confusion of tongues Let me
now express the hope that the next fifty
years of your institution will be as fortunate
the last; that it will go in its usefulness with
peace within its gates and righteousness within
its palaces, and silence enough in its halls for
the still small voice to be heard sometimes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

THE announcement that President Cleveland
is about to take of lessons in horseback
riding comes simultaneously with the informa
ton that he is hard at work on his message.
Persons who are unaccustomed to brain work
always find it necessary to tone up for a little
extra eXertion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02

Telephone CaIs.
Business Offce2 3S Editorial Rooms
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-02
THAT WAS ALL.

"We've your suit. the lawyer said
And gleefully rubbed his pate.
''And what your charges, sir!" they said:
''Oh merely the saved estate"
oil City Derrick.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1887-06-21
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(Gortfetuns foIst.)
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1887-06-21
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